Prof. Brian Keating
@DrBrianKeating • 55,600 subscribers
Every great scientist is a storyteller. I interview Nobel laureates on @Into_Impossible🎙️ Chancellor's Professor @UCSanDiego | Author of Losing the Nobel Prize
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What if alien probes were orbiting Earth before humans ever launched one? 🛰️ Fascinating new paper by Beatriz Villarroel et al. analyzing 1950s Palomar plates finds aligned transient flashes — possibly reflections, or something stranger. Here’s my quick reaction to this bold piece of astronomical archaeology.
Prof. Brian Keating80,488 views • 9 months ago
Our Brains Have Reached the Limit of Understanding Sabine Hossenfelder (Sabine Hossenfelder)
Prof. Brian Keating35,279 views • 11 months ago
Terry Tao’s Warning About AI Terence Tao says humans will continue pushing the mathematical frontier, while AI tackles millions of medium-difficulty problems that no one has time to solve. That’s invaluable. This kind of assistance will undoubtedly accelerate progress. But is it the same as AGI? I don’t think so. “As long as you only use AIs to the extent that you can verify their outputs, and no further, then they can be a great tool.”
Prof. Brian Keating21,004 views • 6 months ago
The Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life with Chris Hadfield (Chris Hadfield)
Prof. Brian Keating21,948 views • 9 months ago
Is Lenny Susskind Harming Physics? Eric Weinstein & Avi Loeb Timestamp: 00:00 Intro 00:29 The rise of anti-science in the US government 24:38 Is AI training us? 28:13 Is Oumuamua an object from another civilization? 32:20 Fighting against the big 10 in physics 42:32 The future of academia 48:13 Immigrants in academia 59:12 Lack of curiosity 1:09:14 Geometric unity and grand unification 1:14:44 Shelter Island III 1:24:00 Outro
Prof. Brian Keating24,651 views • 1 year ago
What is Time? Stephen Wolfram 's Groundbreaking New Theory Timestamp: 00:00 Intro 00:51 The true nature of time 24:42 The role of computational irreducibility in thermodynamics 29:52 The Ruliad and the nature of observers 53:28 The role of gravity in the computational universe 1:06:14 Dark matter and the discreteness of space 1:12:54 Paradigm shifts in science and technology 1:20:18 Exploring the cosmic microwave background (CMB) 1:31:32 Outro
Prof. Brian Keating16,175 views • 1 year ago
Sam Harris (Making Sense Podcast): You Don’t Have Free Will…But AI Does!
Prof. Brian Keating11,372 views • 1 year ago
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